User blog comment:KanameTousen/Nelo Angelo/@comment-167310-20120403103708/@comment-77.102.38.27-20120405000125

Through out the dmc series, demons are seen coming to the human world by manifesting through portals and such. I'm sure if Virgil did go back to the demon world, he would find a way out. Also, the last time he was defeated in dmc1, it looked similar to the other times he was defeated, and he returned afterwards. So maybe he just retreated somewhere else? Maybe he escaped mallet island? Who knows. We will only know when capcom decide to bring him back in a future installment. That is unless this new 'DmC' doesn't completely soil the franchise.